Happy 75th Anniversary to the Joker

Just a quick piece of DC's the Joker, for his 75th Anniversary which was last week.

Sketch Dailies: The Joker

Several months ago the theme on Sketch Dailies was "The Joker" from Batman. I rarely color my sketch dailies entries, but thought I'd go for it with this one.

Pig Knight

This was another character suggested by the Character Design Randomizer. The prompt was:

Body Type: Strong

Clothing: Metal Armor

Head Type: Pig

Weapon/Accessory: Lance

Tortoise Monk

I have not seen the Kung Fu Panda movies, except for a few minutes of one of them, and there was an old wise turtle in it. I didn't intend for this to look like that character- I just like drawing turtle and they frequently end up being old turtles. I am told that this looks very much like the one in the KFP movies. Apologies to the artists who worked on those movies.

Just a girl and her robot

I've been using the Character Design Randomizer at this link, and it's pretty useful. It gives you some basic character appearance traits and it's really helped me to break out of drawing the same old things all the time. The prompt I used for this sketch was:

Body Type: Medium

Clothing: Risque Dress

Head Type: Female

Weapon/Accessory: Robot Familiar

Jinxy's Retro Lounge

I just finished this Cover Illustration for the Facebook group, Jinxy's Retro Lounge.

Gouache on illustration board with digital text.

Don't feed the plants

Boy King

Just an idea for a character that I had a while ago.

First Year Hufflepuff

Remember this guy? I posted a sketch of him quite a while ago . Well, he's all painted now. By an overwhelming majority vote on Instagram, he was sorted into Hufflepuff House.

Joy Ride

"We've come for your daughter, Chuck"

I painted this for a Tim Burton Tribute Art Show back in October. 7x15in Gouache on Illustration Board. The original ($300) and one print ($35) are still available. Please contact me through the contact link on the right if interested.

It's from Sirius!

Wow- It's been so long! I'm ashamed to say that I've ignored my blog for over a year. I'll admit the simplicity of just snapping a picture for Instagram rather than scanning it at my computer is primarily the reason I've been so negligent. But with the upcoming new year I resolve to do better. I'd like to start with sharing this small painting I did for my daughter, a huge Harry Potter fan (ok, so are we, her parents). In fact, I've been away from blogging for so long that apparently I didn't even share the initial sketch, which I only decided to paint several months later. I did the sketch in about 15 minutes, with a light grey Prismacolor Marker for the rough drawing and a Pentel brush pen for the black lines. A few months later, as her birthday approached, I thought I decided to flesh it out into a full painting. As you can see it's basically the same but with many subtle changes. Check out the video below to see how I refined the sketch in Photoshop before painting.

 If you compare the two versions, you can see some subtle differences. I refined the likeness a lot, and improved on the pose, hand positions, etc...

Here's the final painting. If you'd like to see a quick progression, showing the Photoshop refinements to the sketch, here's a short progression video.

23 Days of Halloween: Day 23- Little Mermaid

Have a safe and spooky Halloween everyone!

23 Days of Halloween: Day 22- Elephan-stein revisited

A bit less cute than the last one.

23 Days of Halloween: Day 21- Feed Me!